Chapter 297 One Day in Southern Hebei Province (3)
The Japanese bombing lasted for a long time.
The sky in southern Hebei was filled with thick smoke. Groups of Japanese planes darted through the smoke. When they found villages or groups of people on the ground, they immediately swooped down and bombed and strafed wildly.
Enemy planes flew away one after another, bombing continuously. Jinan was crying!
Li Yimo, commander of the air defense brigade, commanded the air defense regiment and moved positions several times to ambush Japanese aircraft. In the end, the Japanese army seemed to know that Nangong City was an important base for our army and had strong air defense firepower, so they concentrated all fighter planes to search around Nangong City.
An attempt was made to find the teaching group that had conducted several ambushes and carry out revenge.
At 4:30 in the afternoon, Li Yimo led the air defense group to move to the preset air defense position near the north gate of Nangong City.
Originally, by this time in the battle, the soldiers were already exhausted, but seeing the Japanese planes wreaking havoc in the sky over southern Hebei, the soldiers had to cheer up and deal with the enemy planes.
At this time, the sun was almost setting, and the smoke over Nangong City was gradually thinning. Li Yimo finally felt relieved: "This hard day is finally over."
Li Yimo was about to order the Air Defense Regiment to withdraw from the position, when a Japanese plane sprang out from the smoke and passed over the north gate of Nangong. Li Yimo felt bad, the Japanese had discovered the Air Defense Regiment's position, and hurriedly ordered to prepare for battle.
At a short time, four Japanese planes flew from Nankong City to the North Gate. After arriving at the 1st Air Defense Regiment position, they fired back at the 1st Air Defense Regiment position. The machine shells hit the position with dust.
After a day of fighting, the air defense group can be said to have been reborn from the ashes. Seeing the enemy planes coming from behind, the anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns in Triangle Town immediately turned to fight the enemy planes. The cunning enemy planes did not behave as normal.
Instead of passing by or pulling up frontally, they passed through the two wings of the air defense position.
When Li Yimo saw the enemy plane escaping, he secretly thought that a fierce battle was coming!
Sure enough, a large fleet of Japanese aircraft surrounded us from all directions, and they dropped bombs concentratedly over the air defense group.
Although the Japanese aircraft were very high and the bomb hit rate was generally low, the number of Japanese aircraft was large and bombs always fell on the air defense group positions, throwing the unfortunate soldiers high into the air.
Li Yimo was a veteran of the Red Army who participated in the Autumn Harvest Uprising. He had extremely rich combat experience. Knowing that the result of this situation would be heavy losses for the air defense regiment, or even the death of the entire regiment, he hurriedly ordered concentrated artillery fire to form a dense fire circle over the position to prevent Japanese aircraft from dropping bombs.
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At this time, the Japanese fighter jets relied on their dexterity and speed to seize the opportunity of the air defense group to concentrate firepower on the high-altitude bombers, lower their altitude, and begin to sneak attack the air defense group's position.
The formation of the Japanese fighter jets is very simple. Two planes fly in a team at low altitude. When they arrive at the air defense position, they fire wildly with airborne machine guns and machine cannons. Soldiers are constantly being shot. Seeing that the situation is critical, Li Yimo hurriedly orders an anti-aircraft firepower
The group intercepts the enemy aircraft flying from the front, and a fire group intercepts the enemy aircraft flying from behind, leaving an anti-aircraft fire group to deal with the enemy aircraft flying at high altitudes.
Bullets were flying and blood was flowing all over the ground.
Japanese planes kept smoking, catching fire, and exploding, and anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine gun positions kept being destroyed. Since the Japanese bombed southern Hebei today, the most brutal air defense battle began when it was getting dark.
, was finally staged near the north gate of Nangong City.
A Japanese plane was hit on the wing while passing by the air defense position, and staggered away to the north. Naturally, the dragon tiger baby at the awl of the triangle array would not let it go, so he commanded the anti-aircraft machine gun to hit it.
The enemy plane was beaten into pieces.
Before Longhuwa could take a breath, the Japanese planes pounced on him, knocking down the two anti-aircraft machine gun squad soldiers in a pool of blood, and destroying the two anti-aircraft machine guns.
Longhuwa was so angry that half of his teeth were bitten off, and he ordered to concentrate firepower to intercept the enemy planes.
At this time, the Japanese planes had gone completely crazy. While carrying out concentrated retaliation against the air defense group, they began to bomb Nangong City indiscriminately as the smoke gradually dispersed. Bombs fell from the sky one after another, turning the beautiful and peaceful Nangong County into a
It became a sea of fire.
Li Yimo, with his eyes and teeth red, kept waving the flag and commanded the troops to fight back bravely.
The crazy Japanese planes actually launched a suicide attack. Three Japanese planes crashed into the fire circle of the air defense group and exploded on the position, turning the positions of the two anti-aircraft artillery batteries into a hell on earth.
Just as the anti-aircraft firepower of the anti-aircraft group weakened, the Japanese bombers also lowered their altitude, and the hit rate of bomb drops also increased. Bombs continued to explode on the position. The casualties of the anti-aircraft group increased sharply.
Li Yimo saw that Japan's situation was so powerful that it was impossible to stop the enemy's attack with his own air defense regiment, so he quickly ordered to launch smoke bombs to cover the retreat of the troops. As soon as he gave the order, a sinister bomb fell next to Li Yimo, and with a loud noise
, Li Yimo and his bodyguard Xiaohu were all abandoned by Gao Gao.
Smoke bombs were launched, and the air defense group's position was shrouded in smoke. The Japanese planes finally stopped bombing and retreated.
The soldiers of the 1st Air Defense Regiment finally found Li Yimo's blown arms and legs, connected them with the body, parked them on the position, and then lined up to salute the brigade commander.
It was completely dark now, and people hiding in the Nangong tunnel came out and were busy putting out the fire and rescuing people.
After learning that Li Yimo, the commander of the air defense brigade, had died for his country, Wu Zheng, Yuan Guoping, and Tang Xingying, who stayed behind in Nangong, all rushed to the air defense regiment position. The tragic scene in front of her made Tang Xingying's spirit collapse. While collecting the bodies of his comrades,
While sobbing softly.
Wu Zheng walked to Li Yimo's body, saluted, said "Old Li, I will carry you home", and bent down to carry Li Yimo.
Yan Yaohui, leader of the 1st Air Defense Regiment, hurriedly stepped forward to grab Wu Zheng and told him in a low voice that his arms, legs and body were separated and could not be carried on his back.
Yuan Guoping hurriedly stepped forward, lifted the stretcher with Wu Zheng, and walked towards the division headquarters in the city. Behind them, there was a long line of stretchers for martyrs and the sound of crying all the way.
In the evening, general reports of casualties and property losses were reported from various places. This large-scale bombing by Japanese planes killed 5,642 innocent civilians, injured 12,000 people, and destroyed 200,000 houses.
Our army's troops lost 1,300 lives and injured 3,200 in the air strikes. Among them, 420 people died in the air defense battle at the North Gate of Nangong alone. Li Yimo, commander of the air defense brigade, died heroically for his country.
In the evening, the Jinan Radio Station, which resumed broadcasting, broadcast to the world the news of the Japanese bombing of Jinan and the massacre of civilians. It also broadcast an open letter from Li Chengyi, the head of the instructor's guard regiment, to Juichi in the temple, and broadcast the call of Chen Dayong, the commander of the Eighth Route Army's instructor's division and the Jinan Military Region.
The speech in which the people of southern Hebei united to fight off the Japanese air raids broadcast the victory report that our army had completely annihilated the main force of the enemy's 21st Division, formed an independent fourth brigade, and killed Lieutenant General Jiujin Songping and Major General Kawamura Dong.
The news was broadcast that Li Yimo, commander of the Eighth Route Army Air Defense Brigade, died for his country while commanding air defense operations.
After receiving the report of Li Yimo's death, Liu Yimin was stunned for a moment, feeling as if someone had kicked him hard in the heart. He sat down on the ground, and his black gem-like eyes suddenly became gloomy, as if he wanted to eat people.
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Luo Ronghuan's face was as dark as water, and he sat alone on a cold stone, letting tears flow slowly down his cheeks.
Li Yimo's sacrifice was the instructor's heaviest loss since the formation of the Xiangjiang Army, and it was also the most senior general to die since the Eighth Route Army's expedition. After receiving the news, the instructor's units exploded with a "boom".
Cai Zhong and Zeng Zhongsheng, who commanded the operations of the Western Front Group, sent a secret telegram to Liu Yimin, planning to concentrate their forces tonight to attack the Japanese army between Shulu and Hengshui on the Deshi Line, resolutely attack the enemy's arrogance, avenge the people of southern Hebei and avenge Comrade Li Yimo.
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Wu Zheng sent a secret telegram to Liu Yimin, planning to execute all the Japanese brought back from Tianjin tonight to commemorate Comrade Li Yimo.
Hong Chaoyuan, who stayed in Linqing, sent a telegram saying that Liaocheng had been successfully recaptured today, and all the captured Japanese spies and traitors had been shot on the spot. He asked Liu Yimin to approve the movement of the 5th Jiao Brigade to the Jinpu line and choose an opportunity to attack the enemy.
The telegram from Chen Dayong, commander of the Southern Hebei Military Region and commander of the 7th Teaching Brigade, was very direct. He requested the division commander's approval to allow the 7th Teaching Brigade to concentrate its main force and cooperate with the county brigade and militia to attack the Ping-Han Railway.
The leaders of the 1st Teaching Brigade, the 2nd Teaching Brigade, the 3rd Teaching Brigade, the Cavalry Brigade, and the Artillery Brigade who followed Liu Yimin all rushed to the division headquarters. But as soon as they arrived at the division headquarters, they saw the appearance of the division commander and political commissar, and all the leaders of several brigades
He sat aside and smoked a cigarette.
When Mao Zedong learned the news of Li Yimo's death, he was having dinner. After reading the telegram, he knocked all the rice bowls on the table to the ground with a wave of his hand, scaring the children so much that they started crying. He Zizhen knew that a great misfortune must have occurred, and hurriedly hugged him
He walked out with the child.
Mao Zedong stood in front of the window, lit a cigarette, and took a puff. He let the telegraph paper in his hand flutter and tremble, and the image of the brave and loyal young man in the Autumn Harvest Uprising kept flashing before his eyes. Thinking of the most difficult story in Jinggangshan
At that time, Li Yimo was hungry for three days and three nights and had to carry a load of grain to the mountain. Mao Zedong felt that the corners of his eyes were wet.
After about half an hour, Mao Zedong regained his composure. He asked his secretary to bring him pen and ink and wrote four sentences: "Hero of the Red Army, Pioneer of the Anti-Japanese War, Model of the Times, and National Elite." After writing, he told Ye Jianying: "In Xi'an.
A public memorial was held for Comrade Li Yimo and General Fan Zhuxian. Send a report to Liu Yimin. It is never too late for a gentleman to take revenge. The most important thing for a general is to avoid being impetuous and blindly impulsive. When fighting a large army, the first priority is strategic layout. You must be cautious and not be swayed by hatred.
, taken advantage of by the enemy."
At this time, Liu Yimin had woken up from the shock, sadness, and hatred. He knew that launching a major counterattack against the Japanese army at this time would inevitably lead to greater revenge by the Japanese army and attract all the heavy Japanese troops to southern Hebei. In the situation where the issue of air supremacy cannot be solved,
Understand, it is absolutely irresponsible to use instructors to go head-to-head with heavy Japanese troops. The martyrs will never forgive themselves if they know what they are doing.
After calming down for a while, Liu Yimin walked to Luo Ronghuan, helped him up, and whispered: "Political Commissar, we are going to hold a cadre meeting to carefully evaluate the current situation and see how we can better serve Comrade Li Yimo and Jinan